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  • Live By Gandhi/Learn By Google: Faith In A Digital Democracy 1

    Live By Gandhi/Learn By Google: Faith In A Digital Democracy 1

    Digital media culture has transformed the way ideas and information are gathered and shared, but what does this mean for faith in the 21st century? What does religion look like now? Barry Taylor is...

  • The Beatification Of Enoch Powell

    The Beatification Of Enoch Powell

    What influence did Enoch Powell really have in the unexpected Tory election victory of 1970? Did he dare to say what others thought, or change the climate of opinion? 40 years on has he been proved...

  • Conversations with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Conversations with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is famous for writing the Sherlock Holmes adventures. But while these gave him wealth, this literary man sought paradise in speaking with the dead. His friend Harry Houdini...
    Speaker(s): Simon Parke

  • Dark Eden

    Dark Eden

    Eden is a planet without a star, which is why it's dark. It isn't completely dark though. There is life there, powered by the planet's own heat. And that life gives out light. This is a story...

  • Every Second, The Messiah: A Performed Reading from The Late Walter Benjamin

    Every Second, The Messiah: A Performed Reading from The Late Walter Benjamin

    The Late Walter Benjamin juxtaposes the life and death of the German-Jewish Marxist intellectual Walter Benjamin with the grinding reality of a working-class London council estate in post-war...

  • What To Do While You’re Waiting For Paradise

    What To Do While You’re Waiting For Paradise

    How do writers motivate themselves when they know their novel might never be published? What to do while waiting to hear from agents? Does self-publishing ruin credibility? Emerging writer...

  • Where Words Can Go but Not Return

    Where Words Can Go but Not Return

    Philip Gross reads from his latest poetry collection, Deep Field (shortlisted for Wales Book of the Year 2012), which movingly charts his elderly father's journey into deep aphasia and deafness,...

  • Pairidaeza: the Old Persian for Paradise

    Pairidaeza: the Old Persian for Paradise

    Drawing on her memories of life in Iran, Mimi Khalvati's poems are full of love and longing, lost maternal Edens and paradisal gardens. Her readings will interweave the classical forms of Persian...

  • Itch: A Reading

    Itch: A Reading

    The tale of a curious schoolboy searching out all the elements in the periodic table, the story features missing eyebrows, schoolbag arsenic, and a whole host of dangerous situations. Find out the...
    Speaker(s): Simon Mayo

  • Communion

    Communion

    The poet Denise Levertov, talks of saving paradise when she says: “we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life, how it might be to live as siblings with...

  • Writing My Way Home

    Writing My Way Home

    Jenn Ashworth reads from her two published novels, A Kind of Intimacy and Cold Light, as well as from her forthcoming book, The Friday Gospels. As all are set in her native Lancashire, Jenn will...

  • Just Dwelling: Paradise Lose and Saved in Literature

    Just Dwelling: Paradise Lose and Saved in Literature

    From Milton to Atwood, the canon abounds with stories of perfect worlds destroyed by human folly. Dr Tate explores competing versions of paradise imagined by writers including HG Wells, JG Ballard...
    Speaker(s): Andrew Tate

  • Wild Life: A Reading

    Wild Life: A Reading

    Join Rupert as he reads from The Fantasy Kid, his book of poems for children, and debuts some new material. Poet Rupert Loydell travels the southwest as a visiting lecturer, writer and painter. He...

  • The Trouble With Growth

    The Trouble With Growth

    Is economic growth inevitable? Does it have to be? Reflecting on the Occupy London protest at St Paul's Cathedral in his time as canon chancellor, Giles Fraser asks if the root causes of the...
    Speaker(s): Giles Fraser

  • Utopias Unlimited

    Utopias Unlimited

    Paradise is not monopolised by believers. Secular culture, with increasing skill and determination, offers fulfilment courtesy of the Big Society, a federal UK, the American Dream and My Everything....
    Speaker(s): John Bell

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